SearchAPI.io - Google Scholar Cite API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Google Scholar Cite API returns citation information for scholarly articles. It provides various citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver) and links to citation management tools. Cross-linking: The data_cid parameter accepts citation IDs from Google Scholar search results. You can obtain these IDs from the inline_links.cited_by.cites_id field in Google Scholar API organic results.

Tool id: searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite
Provider: SearchAPI.io
Job: Google scholar cite search (search.google-scholar-cite)
Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data_cid`	string	yes
`engine`	string	no	Fixed to “google_scholar_cite” for this endpoint. Example: “google_scholar_cite”
`hl`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite","input":{"data_cid":"<data_cid>","engine":"google_scholar_cite"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite",
    input: {
      data_cid: "<data_cid>",
      engine: "google_scholar_cite",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-google-scholar-cite",
        "input": {
            "data_cid": "<data_cid>",
            "engine": "google_scholar_cite",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.google-scholar-cite as endpointId; see the job page.